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What should Diedre Scozzafava want to accomplish by Sunday's appearance on Face the Nation on CBS? Is it just another post-election 'poor poor pitiful me' about being beat up by tea party thugs led by Dick Armey, who will be on the same show? Well, I hope not.

Former House Majority Leader Richard Armey, R-Texas, on "Face the Nation," November 29, 2009.

Big Republican wins in Virginia and New Jersey prove that Americans oppose President Barack Obama.

Speculation is an important exercise in philosophical debates and social gatherings, but not in public policy reviews or criminal investigations.

Charles Melton Photo credit Staff Sgt. Matthew Clifton Secretary of the Army John McHugh tours Medina Wasl, one of several villages built at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., to approximate an Iraqi town complete with a marketplace, hotel, mosque, restaurants, and a police department.

GOP voters are more likely to agree with Sen. Jim DeMint than with those who say they want to broaden the party, according to a new poll.

Dierdre Scozzafava was supported by most Republicans against their better judgement, Dierdre Scozzafava received over a million dollars from Republican committees, organizations, and PAC'S, and Dierdre Scozzafava decided to return the favor by endorsing a liberal Democrat, and sided with a Democratic takeover of a congressional district/area which ...

Tucked tight up against the Canada-U. S. border, along the southern banks of the St.

Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, tonight picked up his party's support for a seat on the House Armed Services Committee, an appointment that would allow him to continue in the footsteps of former Rep.

By Ben Pershing The first public congressional hearing on the Fort Hood attack will not include testimony from any current federal law enforcement, military or intelligence officials because the Obama administration "declined to provide any" such witnesses, according to a Senate committee source.

Army Secretary John McHugh will attend memorial services at Fort Carson for 15 soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month.

Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Many conservatives are biding their time, waiting for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 2010.

Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation.

The special election last week for the 23rd Congressional District seat in New York may not be over after all.

It is not often that a political party puts more than $750,000 behind a candidate in a high-profile Congressional race, only to see the intended beneficiary endorse the opposition.

Congress is divided about how - and even whether - to move forward with independent investigations of the recent shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.

Rep. William L. Owens was sworn in as the north country's new congressman Friday, just in time to cast what could be a defining vote of his term on a politically divisive health care reform bill.

This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The Washington Post is still having trouble with how the voters rejected their favorite Democrats.

New York's 23rd Congressional District Democratic candidate Bill Owens greets supporters after his victory at Democratic headquarters in Plattsburgh, N.Y. For the Democrats, there was one silver lining to an otherwise bleak Election Day: The party in power won New York's 23rd Congressional District, picking up a seat that had been safely in ...

The 2010 political season opened Tuesday night in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and California.

Edward Ates, accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey, is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat.

One day after conservative activists succeeded in forcing Republican Dede Scozzafava to quit New York's special congressional election, many residents in this sleepy town just south of the Canadian border say they are fed up with outsiders influencing the race.

MSNBC, Aug. 31, 2009, Keith Olbermann on Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia: "In , he described women having jobs as detrimental to the family, called legalized use of contraception illogical, pushed to make divorce more difficult, and insisted government should favor married couples over, quote, 'cohabitators, ...

Tuesday's election results were a disaster for the White House and the Democratic party.

Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, pictured in friendlier days in 1995, are rivals on upstate NY race.

IT is very difficult to keep track of the cycle of elections in the United States of America.

A last-minute endorsement by one-time opponent Dede Scozzafava and a wave of support from previously undecided voters helped Democrat Bill Owens make history Tuesday night in the 23rd Congressional District, according to political analysts.

Following yesterdays swearing in of Rep. Garamendi, our newest member of Congress, Rep.

Now that William L. Owens has won election to Congress, the hard part begins. Mr. Owens arrives in the Capitol today as the House tackles health care reform, probably the most perilous vote of the year for Democrats in Republican-leaning districts.

Corrected at 10:40 a.m. on Nov. 6. Did we really learn much from the off-year elections? I don't think so.

Less than a day after Tuesday's election for the 23rd Congressional District, the fallout is smoldering hot.

While Republicans in Virginia and New Jersey won their state's governorships, Democrats proved victorious in two big money Congressional special elections Tuesday in California and New York.

Support for Democratic candidates could be more common as the party gains voters in rural Madison County.

Congressman-elect Bill Owens has been invited to the White House Friday to meet with President Barack Obama, who wants to congratulate the Democrat on his victory in New York's 23rd congressional district.

What was the biggest suprise of Election Day? 1. Money Doesn't Matter. Mike Bloomberg broke records by spending at least $90 million of his own money on a race for a third term as New York's Mayor, saturating the world's most costly media market for endless commercials in an effort to destroy an already feeble opponent.

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell greets supporters during the campaign rally yesterday enlarge Barack Obama faces a likely political bruising today as Virginia votes for a new governor in an election that the Republican candidate looks set to win.

The election of 2009 should have gone down in history as most off-year elections.

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Regardless of Republican gloating, I'm not reading too much into yesterday's election.

If you've heard it once, you've heard it 1,000 times: the New York 23rd Congressional District has had a Republican incumbent since the 1870s.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend that what happens at the polls tomorrow is going to tell us what it means for President Obama's agenda or how it will portend the 2010 or even 2012 elections.

Video: Steele: 'I don't pick candidates' It was the two races for governor, however, that appeared to attract the most interest at the White House.

Governora s races today in Virginia and New Jersey have been anticipated as barometers of next yeara s midterm congressional elections .

Florida's 2010 Republican primary and Today's New York's 23rd congressional district special election are two fronts on the same war: the ongoing battle in the Republican party that's pitting moderates and mainstreamers versus tea-baggers and Conservative activists.

If Democrats suffer a loss in an upstate New York congressional race Tuesday, it could well spark an uneasy celebration among Republican leaders.

The new Army secretary received an official welcome from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the Army's top uniformed officer today at a ceremony held in Conmy Hall on Fort Myer, Va.

TO: Interested Parties FROM: DCCC Communications DATE: October 31, 2009 RE: What Does the NY-23 GOP Civil War Mean for House Republicans? The news that the NRCC's candidate, moderate Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, was driven out of the NY-23 Special Election to replace former Republican Congressman John McHugh raises questions about the ...

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine at a gubernatorial campaign rally in Camden, N.J. Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Welcome to America's 2009 off-off year elections, in which partisans and analysts hope to turn the usual dictum on its head: today, they'll try to convince you, all politics is national.

Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:09 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:09 a.m. It may be an off year for elections, but there are still a lot of races on Tuesday.

With the Republican out of the race and unions lining up behind their candidate, national Democrats on Monday used a high-profile campaigner and ramped up get-out-the-vote efforts to try to grab a congressional seat in a district held for decades by the GOP.

On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Leave it to Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot : Reporting from Washington - Silvan Johnson adores Sarah Palin, belongs to a conservative discussion group and fumes at President Obama's spending policies.

A group of protestors gather at Totem Square in Sitka, Alaska, Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

Fearful that the party had almost no chance of winning the Nov. 3 New York special election after Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava abruptly announced Saturday that she was dropping out, high-ranking national Democrats immediately began working to secure her endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens , POLITICO has learned.

There has been a relative paucity of independent polling in this race, particularly given that the dynamics have shifted quickly.

If New York sheds one congressional seat after the 2010 census, as experts predict, Democrats and Republicans will have to fight over which party loses - unless Douglas L. Hoffman saves them the trouble.

In little more than a week, New York's 23rd congressional district has become Ground Zero in the battle for the soul of the Republican Party.

The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where health care legislation still languishes, but in Virginia, New Jersey and northern New York state, where President Obama's endorsements of threatened Democratic candidates will test his political clout a year after his own election.

I was driving to the office today, punching buttons on the car radio, when I landed on KTRH in Houston, a Fox station.